Quite probably there could be few better illustrations of the power of London as magnetic multicultural crossroads than Michael Kors’s store opening on Regents Street last night. “Honestly, I’ve never seen such a diverse mix of people in one area,” said the designer. “There are the ones who come with a car and a driver, and then young girls who walk in—people from everywhere.” Kors’s popularity has spread far and wide from New York, such that teenage girls in Britain and countries way beyond it are crazy about his bags and watches, craving the glow-y, glamorous aura they perceive around his name. The fact that he has now upgraded to a three-story, double-fronted piece of prime real estate, just a short trot from Oxford Circus, justified a celebration of starry proportions—not least because, as Kors noted, “This one is bigger than New York!”
Ruth Rogers of the River Café prepared dinner by the Thames for a celebration that attracted a host of international friends including Jessica Chastain, Gwyneth Paltrow, Solange Knowles, Elle Macpherson, Lauren Santo Domingo, Sabine Getty, Eugenie Niarchos, India Knight, Jasmine Guinness, and Dame Joan Collins. Pre-drinks took place in the gardens during a beautifully clear sunset hour but, by the time the party was over, the skies opened to a deluge. The thunder and lightning lasted well into the night—hopefully not an augury of the outcome of today’s momentous British referendum on whether the country should stay in the European Union. For if the verdict is not—a decision that will drastically limit the thriving openness of London’s welcome to foreigners—who knows how that will affect the attractiveness of the city to companies like Michael Kor’s? Table talk was of little else.
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